I’ve been throwing all manner of content at Tik Tok hoping something really sticks. I’m generating encouraging engagement and have over 50 followers. Maybe not too bad after just a couple weeks and only a very few personal contacts added. Discovering Procreate’s animation assist function has been a revelation! I had been using its time-lapse …
Tik Tok tangents, Jack and georgia’s origin tale takes shape Read More »
I am delighted to announce that after only a few months I have drafted a 12 page comic book chapter, and will now go into production. A lot of it needs to be re-blocked to take into account what I’ve learned, but I’m excited.
I am pleased to announce that after a pause while I worked on my art skills, Freedom House is back on the march, and Chapter I is in full production, aiming for a 12 page promotional book to be ready for printing in early ’23. Let’s aim for March! I’m still holding off on crowd-funding, …
First comicon attended, and mission accomplished! The mission was to meet and talk to independent self-publishing comicbook writers and yes I met several. They are doing just what I want to do – sell out small runs of the comic book and hope to get lucky. The right story at the right time, and you …
“Where are we going boys?” “To the top, Johnny!” “What top is that boys?” “The toppermost of the poppermost, Johnny!” “That’s right so let’s give it some. One, two, ah one two, three…” A. The general premise: Freedom House is an organisation that cares for the WILY URCHINS, the street children of the CITY. This …
After calling to Jack and finding him asleep, Georgia sees the dream has started. Albert rises from his sleep and finds himself sitting in a bosun’s chair, anchored to the moon and ready to swing. Georgia leaps on his back, clinging on with arms and legs as the swing into space. They swing out over …
The Dream, and settled on character of Thomas Grand Read More »
One of the best things about writing this comic book is the pace and how it gives me time to think and space for the story to grow. I am scripting and drawing as I go (having the general story-arc in mind and knowing how I think it ends) and this is a really powerful …
Might not end up in the book – maybe just one panel of the author telling the character she doesn’t die, but it’s fun for the first draft/learning book that this is. One of the main things I’m working on now is to be able to eyeball perspective better. This is important because not everything …
I’m setting up quite an ambitious scene today, where I reassure the main character that she doesn’t die climbing the scary tower. “So, let me get this straight,” she says back, you made me scared of heights then wrote me climbing this tower with my skirts unfeasibly tucked up, just so I can be scared?” …